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MISSION  OF  AMERICAN  REFORMED  CHURCH  IN 
THE  REGION  OF  AMOY,  CHINA. 

BY  REV.  J.  V.  N.  TALMAGE,  D.D. 

There  are  three  Protestant  Missions  at  Amoy,  viz.,  of 
the  American  Reformed  Church,  the  London  Mis- 
sionary Society  and  the  English  Presbyteria^i  Church. 
No  proper  account  of  the  work  of  either  of  these 
Missions  can  be  given  without  some  account  of  the 
other  two.  The  three  Missions  have  worked  together 
with  unusual  harmony,  and  have  assisted  each  other 
directly  and  indirectly  in  many  ways. 

The  Mission  of  the  American  Reformed  Church  was 
the  first  in  the  field.  It  was  commenced  by  Rev.  David 
Abeel,  D.D.,  who  arrived  at  Amoy,  Feb.  24,  1842.  He 
came  to  China  in  1830,  as  agent  of  American  Seamen’s 
Friends  Society,  to  labor  especially  among  the  English 
speaking  seamen  connected  with  the  shipping  at  Wham- 
poa (Canton).  Afterward  for  a time  he  had  appointment 
from  the  A.  B.  C.  F.  M.  He  was  a man  of  unusual 
activity  He  made  various  trips  to  different  parts  of  this 
eastern  heathen  world,  also  a trip  to  Europe  and  Amer- 
ica, always  engaged  in  the  work  of  his  Master,  and  always 
having  the  evangelization  of  the  great  Chinese  race  at 
heart. 

After  Amoy,  at  the  close  of  the  opium  war,  became  an 
open  port,  he  came  to  Amoy  to  engage  in  direct  mission 
work.  Having  already  made  considerable  acquisition  of 
the  dialect  of  this  part  of  China,  he  was  able  almost  im- 
mediately after  his  arrival  to  begin  evangelistic  work. 


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SKETCHES  OF  THE  MISSIONS. 


In  consequence  of  ill  health  he  left  Amoy,  December  19, 
1844,  and  returned  to  America.  Dr.  Abeel  was  a man  of 
warm  hearted  piety,  and  his  name  was  fragrant  at  Amoy 
for  many  years  after  his  departure.  He  did  not  baptize 
any  converts,  but  some  of  those  who  became  interested 
in  the  Gospel  through  his  instrumentality  were  after- 
ward baptized  by  others.  (John  iv.  37.) 

Before  the  departure  of  Dr.  Abeel  from  Amoy  Rev.  E. 
Doty  and  Rev.  Wm.  J.  Pohlman  joined  him,  arriving 
June  22,  1844,  under  the  direction  of  the  A.  B.  C.  F.  M., 
through  which  Board  the  American  Reformed  Church 
was  then  conducting  all  its  foreign  mission  work.  They 
had  been  laboring  some  years  among  Chinese  settlers  in 
Borneo.  This  was  the  transference  of  the  Chinese  de- 
partment of  the  Borneo  Mission  to  China  proper. 

In  consequence  of  the  death  of  Mrs.  Pohlman  and 
Mrs.  Doty,  Mr.  Doty  left  Amoy,  November,  1845,  for  the 
United  States  with  his  and  Mr.  Pohlman’s  children. 

In  1847,  having  again  married,  he  returned  to  China, 
arriving  at  Amoy,  August  19,  1847. 

December  19,  1848,  Mr.  Pohlman  took  his  sister,  who 
had  joined  him  some  time  previously  and  had  recently 
been  very  ill,  to  Hong  Kong  for  her  health.  On  his  re- 
turn voyage  from  Hong  Kong  the  vessel  was  wrecked 
January  5,  1849,  and  Mr.  Pohlman  was  drowned.  He 
had  been  a very  zealous  and  efficient  missionary.  He 
had  only  baptized  two  native  converts,  but  he  had  been 
instrumental  in  interesting  many  others,  some  of  whom 
were  baptized  after  his  death.  One  of  these  (not  bap- 
tized till  many  years  after  Mr.  Pohlman's  death)  in  his 
later  days  always  seemed  to  associate  heaven  with  Mr. 
Pohlman.  When  speaking  of  heaven,  to  which  he  was 
expecting  soon  to  go,  he  was  wont  to  say  “ I will  see 
Teacher  Pohlman  there.”  The  first  church  building 
erected  by  Protestants  at  Amoy,  probably  the  first  erected 
in  China  for  Chinese  worship  only,  stands,  and,  judging 


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from  the  stability  of  the  structure,  may  stand  for  genera- 
tions to  come  a monument  of  the  faith  and  zeal  of  Mr. 
Pohlman.  The  money  for  the  building  was  raised  by 
friends  in  the  United  States  at  his  suggestion  and  solici- 
tation, and  he  watched  over  the  work  of  building  with 
great  solicitude  until  the  house  was  nearly  ready  to  be 
opened  for  public  worship,  when  he  was  suddenly  called 
to  leave  for  Hong  Kong.  The  dedication  of  it  was  de- 
layed for  him  to  return  and  conduct  the  exercises.  But 
when  the  news  of  his  death  came  the  dedicatory  exer- 
cises were  held  and  were  also  made  his  funeral  services. 

The  above  mentioned  three  missionaries  may  properly 
be  called  the  founders  of  the  Mission,  so  there  is  no  need 
in  this  paper  to  mention  the  names  of  those  succeeding 
them.  A few  more  words,  however,  should  be  said  con- 
cerning Mr.  Doty.  The  second  Mrs.  Doty  having  been 
taken  from  him,  he  left  Amoy  for  the  United  States  a 
second  time  with  his  motherless  children  in  November, 
1859,  and  returning  arrived  again  at  Amoy  in  September, 
1861.  He  was  permitted  to  labor  here  until  November, 
1864,  when  he  again  embarked  for  America,  but  died  on 
the  passage  a few  days  before  the  ship  arrived  at  New 
York.  He  left  a much  greater  impress  on  the  church  at 
Am.oy,  and  for  good,  than  those  who  preceded  him. 

The  London  Mission  work  was  commenced  at  Amoy 
by  Rev.  J.  Stronach  and  Rev.  Wm.  Young.  They  ar- 
rived in  July,  1844,  were  joined  in  1847  by  Rev.  A. 
Stronach.  All  these  had  been  laboring  some  years  at 
various  places  south  of  China,  mostly  among  Chinese 
from  the  region  of  Amoy,  so  that  they  were  ready  to  be- 
gin evangelistic  work  immediately  on  their  arrival.  They 
did  efficient  work  for  many  years.  Their  names  are  still 
held  in  honored  remembrance  by  the  churches  here. 
The  London  Mission  has  now  a larger  number  of  native 
churches  and  church  members  than  either  of  the  other 
Missions  at  Amoy. 


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SKETCHES  OF  THE  MISSIONS. 


The  work  of  the  English  Presbyterian  Church  was 
commenced  here  by  Dr.  James  Young,  who  arrived  at 
Amoy  in  July.  1850.  He  had  been  engaged  at  Hong 
Kong  in  the  druggist  business,  which  he  gave  up  in  order 
to  engage  in  mission  work.  He  was  joined  in  July,  1851, 
by  Rev.  Wm.  C.  Burns,  who  had  previously  been  en- 
gaged in  evangelistic  work  in  the  region  of  Hong  Kong 
and  Canton.  Dr.  Young  being  a layman,  and  Mr.  Burns 
wishing  to  give  himself  entirely  to  evangelistic  work, 
they  labored  at  first  chiefly  in  connection  with  the  other 
Missions  at  Amoy.  Mr.  Burns  providentially  soon  be- 
came very  closely  associated  with*  the  native  Christians 
connected  with  our  Mission,  and  as  soon  as  he  had  ac- 
quired sufficient  knowledge  of  this  dialect  he  began  mak- 
ing short  preaching  tours  with  them.  Thus  union  in 
work  between  the  two  Missions  gradually  became  so' 
close  that  the  churches  planted  by  them  grew  up  ecclesi- 
astically o?ie. 

Dr.  Young’s  health  failing  him  in  1854,  and  it  being 
necessary  that  some  one  take  charge  of  him,  Mr.  Burns 
decided  to  return  with  him  to  their  native  land.  They 
embarked  for  Hong  Kong  on  the  U.  S.  steamer  “ Pow- 
hatan,” August  5,  1854.  Before  their  departure  how- 
ever, in  December,  1853,  Rev.  James  Johnston  joined  that 
mission.  Itwas  indeed  with  him  that  the  proper  organiza- 
tion of  their  mission  work  began.  Mr.  Johnston  on  account 
of  ill  health  left  Amoy,  May,  1855,  and  returned  to  Great 
Britain.  His  work  however  was  soon  taken  up  by  Rev. 
Carstairs  Douglas,  who  arrived  at  Amoy  in  July,  1855. 
He  soon  became,  and  continued  until  his  death  in  1877, 
a very  efficient  laborer  in  connection  with  the  English 
Presbyterian  Mission.  Beside  his  direct  evangelistic 
work  in  the  region  both  northeast  and  northwest  from 
Amoy,  he  compiled  and  published  a dictionary  of  the 
spoken  language  of  this  region,  which  is  of  immense  value 
to  all  the  missionaries  and  all  others  endeavoring  to  learn 


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this  language,  and  is  a monument  of  indefatigable  labor 
and  painstaking  accuracy  very  characteristic  of  the  man. 

The  Engl'sh  Presbyterian  Mission  has  not  only  greatly 
developed  in  the  region  around  Amoy,  but  has  sent  off 
branches  which  are  bearing  great  fruit  both  at  Swatow, 
the  next  port  south  of  Amoy,  and  to  Taiwanfoo,  the 
southern  part  of  Formosa. 

Missionaries  of  other  churches  and  societies  at  different 
times  commenced  work  at  Amoy.  The  most  of  them  re- 
mained so  short  atime  as  to  leave  but  little  manifest  effect 
of  their  labors.  The  most  notable  exception  to  this  was 
Rev.  John  Lloyd  of  the  American  Presbyterian  Church. 
He  arrived  at  Amoy,  December  6,  1844,  and  died  De- 
cember 6,  1848.  For  a year  or  two  before  his  death  he 
had  conducted  evangelistic  services  almost  daily  in  a small 
building  which  he  had  rented  for  the  purpose  in  a ver)' 
busy  part  of  the  town.  The  fruit  of  his  seed  sowing  was 
reaped  by  others.  He  left  in  manuscript  an  Amoy  vocab- 
ulary, which  may  be  said  to  be  the  foundation  of  Dr. 
Douglas’  Dictionary.  After  the  death  of  Mr.  Lloyd,  all 
others  who  had  been  in  connection  with  that  mission 
having  previously  returned  to  the  United  States,  the 
American  Presbyterian  Church  withdrew  from  this  field, 
leaving  their  work  specially  to  the  American  Reformed 
Church,  because  of  the  similarity  of  the  two  churches 
in  the  matter  of  doctrine  and  church  government. 

Medical  mission  work  at  Amoy  was  commenced  by  an 
American  physician,  Wm.  H.  Cumming,  M.  D.,  who 
arrived  at  Amoy,  June  7,  1842.  He  was  not  at  the  first 
connected  with  any  missionary  board  or  society,  but  was 
a zealous  medical  missionary,  the  expenses  of  his  mis- 
sionary work  being  defrayed  by  the  private  resources  of 
himself  and  others.  He  opened  a dispensary  for  the 
Chinese  in  the  house  of  Dr.  Abeel,  who  furnished  him  a 
room  for  the  purpose,  and  gave  religious  instruction 


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SKETCHES  OF  THE  MISSIONS. 


daily  to  those  who  came  for  medicine  or  medical  advice, 
or  for  other  purposes. 

Dr.  Gumming  was  joined  November  25,  1843,  by  J.  C. 
Hepburn,  M.D.,  who  is  now  and  has  been  for  many  years 
a missionary  in  Japan.  He  was  sent  out  by  the  American 
Presbyterian  Church,  resided  a while  at  Singapore,  and 
came  to  Amoy  after  the  opening  of  this  place  to  foreign 
residence.  Although  Dr.  Hepburn  left  Amoy  in  1845, 
and  Dr.  Gumming  in  1847,  medical  mission  work  has  been 
continued  ever  since  by  one  or  more  of  the  missions,  with 
very  few  and  short  intermissions. 

From  the  above  it  will  be  seen  that  the  commencement 
of  medical  missionary  work  was  in  connection  with  our 
Mission.  Afterward  it  was  taken  up  and  carried  on  as 
the  special  work  of  other  missions.  We  have  always  done 
what  we  could,  and  as  our  help  was  needed  in  forward- 
ing their  medical  work,  sometimes  by  assisting  in  defray- 
ing the  expenses  thereof,  as  well  as  by  missionary  labor  in 
connection  with  the  hospitals.  Our  own  direct  medical 
mission  work  must  date  from  this  year  or  from  the  latter 
part  of  last  year.  Dr.  Y.  May  King  arrived  at  Amoy, 
October  3,  1887,  and  Dr.  J.  A.  Otte,  January  13,  1888. 

All  mission  work  at  Amoy  began  on  Kolongsu,  the  only 
place  where  foreigners  at  the  opening  of  this  port  were 
able  at  first  to  get  residences ; stated  public  preaching 
and  regular  medical  work  in  Amoy  town  began  in  Janu- 
ary, 1844. 

The  character  of  our  Mission  from  the  beginning  was 
that  of  a preaching  mission.  This  is  well  stated  in  a 
paper  prepared  by  Mr.  Pohlman  in  1846,  in  which  he  de- 
scribes the  missionaries  of  Amoy  as  giving  themselves 
specially  ‘‘  to  stated  intelligible  and  formal  exhibitions  of 
divine  trtdh  on  the  Lord's  day  and  during  the  week,"  and 
he  advises  all  missionaries  coming  to  Ghina  to  learn  to 
speak  the  language  accurately,  and  adds,  "Be  sure  you  are 
understood,  * * then  preach, PREACH.  * * » 


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‘ Alas  ! for  a mission  where  the  absorbing  object  of  atten- 
tion with  any  of  its  members  is  anything  else  than  how 
Christ  crucified  shall  be  preached  to  the  heathen,  so  as 
most  effectually  to  persuade  them  to  be  reconciled  to 
God.’  ” 

Thus  we  have  always  made  all  other  departments  of 
mission  work,  educational  as  well  as  medical,  subservi- 
ent to  the  proclamation  of  the  Gospel. 

Beside  the  more  formal  preaching  on  the  Sabbath  and 
the  less  formal  preaching  on  week  days  in  the  chapels, 
and  the  still  less  formal  preaching  in  the  streets,  so  soon 
as  earnest  inquirers  were  found.  Inquiry-meetings,  Bible- 
classes,  and  Prayer-meetings  were  instituted,  some  of 
which  commenced  by  Messrs.  Doty  and  Pohlman  have 
been  continued  even  to  this  day,  and  many  others  have 
sprung  from  them. 

Parochial  schools  were  begun  as  soon  as  the  number  of 
children  connected  with  Christian  families  seemed  to 
justify  the  additional  expense  of  money  and  labor.  Our 
distinctive  educational  work  has  been  decidedly  religious, 
our  primary  schools  are  confined  almost  entirely  to  chil- 
dren connected  with  Christian  families,  and  the  higher 
schools  to  youths  who  have  made  public  profession  of 
faith  in  Christ,  and  give  promise  of  future  usefulness  as 
teachers,  evangelists  or  pastors.  Some  thirty  years  ago  we 
commenced  a theological  class  for  the  training  of  native 
preachers.  Some  seven  years  ago  a middle  school  (the 
beginning  of  an  academy  or  college)  was  instituted  by 
the  English  Presbyterian  Mission  to  be  shared  equally  by 
us.  In  like  manner  our  theological  class  has  been  merged 
in  the  union  theological  school  or  seminary  of  the  two 
missions.  It  is  in  order  to  secure  better  and  suitable 
buildings  for  the  accommodation  of  these  two  institutions 
that  we  have  asked  our  church  to  furnish  us  with  $5,000, 
to  be  added  to  a like  sum  which  the  English  Presby- 
terian Missionaries  hope  to  get  from  their  church  forthis 


8 SKETCHES  OF  THE  MISSIONS. 

purpose.  I believe  they  have  already  received  more  than 
half  that  amount. 

While  on  this  subject  of  Christian  education  I may  re- 
mark that  nearly  twenty  years  ago.  we  began  in  connec- 
tion with  our  second  church  at  Arnoy,  a girls’  school  both 
for  boarding  and  day  scholars.  In  i88o  it  was  removed 
to  Kolongsu  near  our  Mission  houses.  Each  of  the  three 
missions  has  now  a girls’  school  on  this  island. 

In  1884,  the  “Charlotte  W.  Duryee  Bible  school”  was 
commenced,  where  women  from  the  churches  of  each  of 
the  missions  receive  careful  Christian  instruction,  and 
are  taught  to  read  the  Bible  in  Romanized  Colloquial,  for 
their  own  spiritual  advancement,  and  that  they  may  be- 
come more  useful  at  their  homes,  and  that  some  of  them 
may  become  fitted  to  be  employed  as  “ Bible  women.” 

The  first  converts  received  at  Amoy  were  in  connection 
with  our  Mission,  viz.,  the  two  old  men  baptized,  as  men- 
tioned above,  by  Mr.  Pohlman  in  April,  1846.  The  next 
received  in  connection  with  our  Mission,  were  three  per- 
sons, two  men  and  their  old  mother,  a widow,  baptized 
in  July.  1849.  Since  then  every  year  has  witnessed  addi- 
tions to  the  church  in  Amoy,  beside  the  work  in  the 
country  around. 

Amoy  church  was  organized  by  the  setting  apart  of 
elders  and  deacons  in  1856.  In  i860  it  was  separated  into 
two  organizations  preparatory  to  the  calling  of  pastors. 
Two  men  were  chosen  by  the  churches  in  1861.  They 
had  been  preachers  or  unordained  evangelists.  A special 
course  of  additional  instruction  was  given  them,  and  in 
1863  they  were  ordained  and  installed  over  their  respect- 
ive churches. 

The  first  work  inland  from  Amoy  that  produced  mani- 
fest fruit  and  became  permanent,  was  commenced  by 
Rev.  Wm.  C.  Burns,  who  in  the  autumn  of  1853  accom- 
panied by  some  of  the  members  of  our  church  in  Amoy, 
made  a preaching  tour  in  the  region  of  Peh-chui-ia.  Be- 


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fore  this,  there  had  been  desultory  preaching  by  the  mis- 
sionaries and  native  Christians  in  many  of  the  towns, 
villages,  and  hamlets  around  ; and  preparation  had  been 
made  and  native  unordained  evangelists  appointed  to  be- 
gin permanent  work  in  the  cities  of  Chiang-chiu  and 
Tong-an.  Several  visits  for  preaching  had  been  made  to 
Chiang-chiu,  and  a house  had  been  rented  as  a chapel  for 
stated  preaching  and  Christian  worship,  and  two  of  our 
native  preachers  had  taken  possession.  These  plans  how- 
ever were  all  frustrated  by  the  rebellion  that  occured 
in  this  region  in  the  spring  of  1853,  in  which  one  of  the 
helpers  at  Chiang-chiu  lost  his  life.  The  other  with  great 
difficulty  escaped  and  got  back  safely  to  Amoy.  Amoy 
was  held  by  the  rebels  for  six  months,  which  allowed 
little  opportunity  for  evangelistic  work  in  the  country 
during  that  time. 

It  was  after  this  rebellion  had  been  subdued  that  Mr. 
Burns  and  the  native  Christians  made  the  tour  mentioned 
above.  Great  interest  attended  their  preaching.  Mr. 
Burns  being  very  unwilling  to  assume  pastoral  responsi- 
bility, the  supervision  of  the  work  at  Peh-chni-ia  de- 
volved on  our  mission.  During  the  year  1854,  Mr.  John- 
ston assumed  the  financial  responsibility  of  the  work  in 
that  region,  and  Peh-chui-ia  became  a station  of  the 
English  Presbyterian  Mission.  We  agreed  however,  to 
continue  the  pastoral  oversight  of  the  church  until  his 
knowledge  of  the  language  should  be  sufficient  for  him 
to  relieve  us.  In  consequence  of  his  departure  so  soon 
from  Amoy,  we  continued  that  oversight  until  the 
summer  of  1856.  From  the  beginning  to  that  time  we 
had  baptized  thirty-seven  adults  and  eight  infants  at  Peh- 
chui-ia.  After  that  time  Dr.  Douglas  assumed  the  pas- 
toral as  well  as  the  financial  responsibility  of  the  church 
in  that  region. 

The  manifest  progress  of  the  Gospel  stirred  up  much 
opposition  at  Peh-chui-ia.  The  first  Christians  exposed 


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SKETCHES  OF  THE  MISSIONS. 


themselves  to  much  obloquy,  and  sometimes  to  loss  of 
property,  and  even  to  persona!  violence. 

The  next  out  station  that  became  permanent  is  Chioh- 
be.  The  work  spread  to  that  place  from  Peh-chui-ia  in 
the  first  instance,  by  some  of  the  Christians  of  Peh- 
c-hui-ia  in  the  summer  of  1854,  going  to  Chioh  be  on  busi- 
ness. Afterward  the  missionaries  and  native  members 
of  our  churches  at  Amoy  took  up  and  carried  on  the 
work.  The  first  baptisms  were  in  January,  1855.  During 
that  year  we  baptized  at  Chioh-be  twenty-two  adults  and 
five  infants 

At  Chioh-be  the  progress  of  the  Gospel  stirred  up 
still  more  violent  opposition  than  at  Peh-chui-ia.  The 
officials  openly  took  sides  against  Christianity,  but  did 
not  dare  openly  to  authorize  violence  on  the  part  of  the 
people. 

Doubtless  these  persecutions  were  overruled  to  bring 
some  good  to  the  churches.  They  were  the  means  of 
keeping  out  the  hypocrites  and  self-deceivers,  and  of 
driving  the  Christians  closer  to  their  Saviour;  and  not- 
withstanding the  manifest  check  they  gave  to  the  imme- 
diate spreading  of  the  work,  they  did  not  stop  it 
altogether.  In  the  region  beginning  at  Peh-chui-ia  and 
spreading  beyond  to  the  southwest  the  English  Presby- 
terians have  five  organized  churches  supporting  their 
own  ordained  pastors,  and  more  than  twenty  regular 
preaching  places. 

In  the  region  beginning  at  Chioh-be  and  extending 
westward  we  have  three  organized  churches  supporting 
their  own  pastors,  with  some  eleven  congregations  and 
out  stations  under  their  care.  The  expenses  of  evange- 
listic work  in  these  outlying  congregations  and  out  sta- 
tions are  defrayed  in  some  jilaces  wholly,  at  other  places 
partly,  by  the  Mission.  Still  beyond  these  churches  and 
congregations  is  the  field  of  mission  work  among  the 
Hakkas  carried  on  by  the  native  church. 


AMOY  MISSION;  CHINA. 


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The  work  of  our  church  has  also  spread  somewhat  to 
the  east  and  north  from  Amoy,  where  we  have  three  or- 
ganized churches  with  five  congregations,  but  without  as 
yet  any  ordained  native  pastor. 

The  churches  gathered  by  the  English  Presbyterian 
and  American  Reformed  Missions  were  organized  in  1862 
into  a Classis  or  Tai-hoey,  in  which  the  two  Missions  at 
the  present  time  are  very  nearly  equally  represented,  and 
connected  with  which,  according  to  the  reports  for  1887, 
there  were  16  organized  churches,  with  1701  adult  mem- 
bers, 1 1 ordained  pastors  supported  by  their  respective 
churches,  47  unordained  preachers  or  evangelists,  56  con- 
gregations and  preaching  stations  (beside  the  mission 
among  the  Hakkas),  16  parochial  schools  with  238 
pupils,  $4,588. 1 3 contributions  by  the  native  churches  for 
religious  purposes. 

In  order  to  a full  appreciation  of  the  grace  of 
God  manifested  in  His  work  in  this  region,  I should 
add  that  the  churches  gathered  by  the  London  Mission 
have  formed  a Congregational  Union  or con- 
nected with  which,  according  to  their  report  (published 
a year  ago),  there  were  5 ordained  pastors,  42  unordained 
preachers,  27  congregations  and  preaching  stations  with 
1088  adult  church  members.  The  contributions  for  religi- 
ous purposes  during  the  year  had  been  more  than  $2,000. 

Now,  I ask.  how  shall  we  thank  God  sufficiently  for  the 
marvelous  success  He  has  given  us  ? From  the  foregoing 
it  will  be  seen  that,  although  our  Mission  was  the  first  in 
this  field,  the  one  coming  last  has  overtaken,  and  the 
other  has  outstripped  us.  Perhaps  a sufficient  reason 
for  this  may  be  found  in  the  fact  that  both  of  these  Mis- 
sions until  recently  have  usually  been  furnished  with 
more  men  and  means  for  the  work.  For  the  first  forty 
years  of  our  work  here  it  was  only  during  rare  or  short 
periods  that  we  had  on  the  ground  as  many  as  three  mis- 


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SKETCHES  OF  THE  MISSIONS. 


sionaries  with  sufficient  knowledge  of  the  language  to  do 
efficient  work.  But  now,  thank  God,  our  Mission  is 
stronger  than  it  has  ever  been  before.  Now  if  the 
church  at  home  continue  to  furnish  the  men  and  means 
needed  to  keep  up  this  enlargement,  and  we,  the  mission- 
aries, be  found  faithful,  both  of  which  conditions  we 
pray  God,  for  His  own  name's  sake,  by  His  gracious  Spirit 
to  make  good,  then  shall  our  church  have  a still  more 
worthy  share  in  the  work  of  bringing  back  to  allegiance 
to  our  Lord  this  the  greatest  of  His  rebellious  provinces. 


MISSIONARIES  OF  THE  REFORMED  CHURCH  IN  AMERICA 
TO  AMOY,  CHINA. 

JOINED  RETIRED  FROM 
THE  MISSION.  THE  MISSION. 

Rev.  David  Abeel,  D.D.,  1842  1845* 

Rev.  Elihii  Doty,  1844  1865* 

Mrs.  EHhu  Doty,  1844  1845* 

Mrs.  Mary  (Smith)  Doty,  1847  1858* 

Rev.  \V.  J.  Pohiman,  1844  1849* 

Mrs.  Theodosia  R.  (Scudder)  Pohiman,  1844  1845* 

Rev.  J.  V.  N.  Talmage,  D.D.,  1847 

Mrs.  Abby  F.  (Woodruff)  Talmage,  1850  1862* 

Mrs.  Mary  E.  (Van  Deventer)  Talmage,  1865 

Rev.  J.  S.  Joralmon,  1855  i860 

Mrs.  J.  S.  Joralmon,  1855  i860 

Rev.  Daniel  Rapalje,  1858 

Mrs.  Alice  (Ostrom)  Rapalje,  1878 

Rev.  Alvin  Ostrom,  1858  1864 

Mrs.  Susan  (Webster)  Ostrom,  1858  1864 

Rev.  John  E.  Watkins,  1S60  * * 

Mrs.  John  E.  Watkins,  i860  * * 

Miss  Caroline  E Adriance,  i860  1863 

Rev.  Eeonard  W.  Kip,  D.D.,  1861 

Mrs.  Helen  (Culburtson)  Kip,  1861 

Rev.  Augustus  Blauvelt,  1861  1864 

Mrs.  Jennie  (Zabriskiei  Blauvelt,  1861  1864 

Rev.  J.  Howard  Van  Doren,  1864  1873 

Rev.  John  A.  Davis,  1868  1871 

Mrs.  Emma  C.  (Wyckoff)  Davis,  1868  1871 

Miss  Helen  M.  Van  Doren,  1870  1877 

Miss  Mary  E.  Talmage,  1874 

Rev.  David  M.  Talmage,  1877  1880 

Miss  Catharine  M.  Talmage,  1881 

Rev.  Alexander  S.  Van  Dyck,  1882 

Mrs.  Alice  (Kip)  Van  Dyck,  1886 

Miss  Y.  May  King,  M.D.,  1887 

John  A.  Otte,  M.D.,  1887 

Mrs.  F.  C.  (Phelps  Otte,  1887 

Rev.  John  G.  Fagg,  1887 

* Deceased. 

* * Rev.  John  E.  Watkins  and  wife  sailed  from  New  York  to  join 
the  Mission  in  i860,  and  were  never  heard  from. 


ERRATUM. 


To  list  of  Missionaries,  page  12,  add  : 

Rev.  Philip  W.  Pitcher,  1885 

Mrs.  Annie  T.  (Merritt)  Pitcher,  . . 1885 


